2/14/2007 - Ladyrunners 92, Tyler 82

TYLER – The AC Lady Roadrunners have pulled off some miraculous wins thus far this season, but Wednesday’s 92-82 overtime win over Tyler may have taken the Valentine’s Day cake.

Trailing by 17 points with just eight minutes to play – and showing very little sign of offensive life – the Lady Roadrunners roared back to tie the contest at 78-78 and send the game to an extra period on a Camille Parks three-pointer with four seconds to play. The Lady ‘Runners then outscored the Lady Apaches 14-4 in the additional frame.

Parks’ led AC with 29 points and four steals. Shanquita Howard and Desiree Waller added 13 points each; and Ty Felder, Cassandra Johnson and LaTesha Reddick chipped in 10 points each.

Every one of those points became necessary to overcome Lady Apache Jamia Malone’s 35 points. Malone scored 21 in the first half alone, combining a slashing drive with three-point accuracy to compile her totals.

AC head coach Byron Coleman said the difference in the two halves came down to finally taking advantage of opportunities missed over the first 30 minutes.

“We didn’t convert any of their mistakes into points until those last few minutes,” Coleman said. “We’d forced some turnovers earlier, but didn’t do anything to capitalize. Once we started scoring in transition, we were fine. That’s more our game than the half-court sets.”

Asked his thoughts when the Tyler lead bulged to 17, Coleman said, “I just thought, ‘Oh, man, here we go again. We’ve been here before.’”

The Lady Roadrunners, who had trailed since the 6:00 mark of the first half, didn’t regain the lead until the first bucket of overtime – a short jumper in the lane from Parks. Parks scored 12 of her 29 points in the final seven minutes of regulation to lead the Lady ‘Runners to their seventh conference win against five losses.

AC will host Jacksonville Saturday at Shands Gym, with game time set for 2 p.m.

 

 

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